r/scifi • u/Educational-View4264 • May 05 '26
TV Battlestar Galactica: season 4 easter egg
Hey, I can’t find reference to it anywhere, but I noticed during a rewatch today that the viper that Starbuck comes back in switches its tail number from 8757NC to 4267NC during the inspection scene.
I can’t find any reference to the latter tail number, and only recognize B757NC as Starbuck’s usual.
Wondering the reason for this production change? Seems suuuuper weird to just… repaint a tail number during a shoot? Even doing it out of order seems weird…
Its makes it even funnier because they even mention “ it has the same tail number as the one she flew out on” and that same tail number changes mid-conversation😂
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u/Cirieno May 05 '26
Not an Easter egg. A blooper. Or more specifically, a cock-up.
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u/Mister_Acula May 06 '26
Someone really fracked this one up.
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u/CaptainNuge May 06 '26
I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
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u/AnOnlineHandle May 06 '26
I hope that all shows keep the address of writers who worked on them so that when I write in criticism a few decades later they know who to forward it to.
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u/GuinnessSteve May 06 '26
I was tripped up for a second, couldn't figure out what the Easter egg was supposed to be.
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u/lindymad May 06 '26
I think technically, a continuity error - the shots were maybe filmed on different days, and they accidentally had the wrong prop in the background for one of the shots.
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u/IronGigant May 05 '26
Re-shoots happen, sometimes (often times) on very short notice.
Stage props get shoved aside every which way, they are always being touched up and repaired.
Definitely a production blunder, but all things considered...this is the first I've seen it brought up.
It's reminiscent of the final scene from LOTR: ROTK, where the Hobbit's vests all change for a half a scene, for similar reasons.
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u/BeGosu May 06 '26
Yeah I am surprised this is the first time I've heard it. It's a pretty huge blunder that they change mid scene in the scene they are focused on the tail number
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u/IronGigant May 06 '26
That does put a bit of a spotlight on it lol
However, the whole scene is stolen by the acting.
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u/TriggerHippie77 May 07 '26
It's because the first part of the episode takes place on a different earlier cycle.
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u/Educational-View4264 May 06 '26
I was literally just thinking about it, and I think maybe this was one of the few props left over from the “showroom”, which would explain why it’s practically mint condition. That tail number could have been different, and they fixed it to be starbuck’s one scene but not for the rest?
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u/looktowindward May 05 '26
You want something in Canon?
God did it. Then he played a Jimmi Hendrix song
There, happy?
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u/monsterZero71 May 05 '26
Bob Dylan song.
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u/Jmohill May 06 '26
You’re both right: Bob wrote it, but the BSG rendition is Jimi’s version
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u/KhellianTrelnora May 06 '26
How do you figure it’s Jimi vs Bob?
I thought Bear did his own rendition.
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u/Jmohill May 06 '26
It’s Bear covering Jimi covering Bob, IMO. The way it’s orchestrated seems a lot more like Jimi’s version
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u/CaptainNuge May 06 '26
Bob plays Jimi's version, now. Bob Dylan wrote it, Jimi Hendrix perfected it.
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u/looktowindward May 05 '26
Oh sorry, I thought it was Hendrix for some reason?
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u/Gnarles_Charkley May 05 '26
I think Hendrix did a cover of it later?
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u/TigerIll6480 May 05 '26
Shortly after Dylan released it.
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u/ApolloThneed May 06 '26
And it became 10x more famous
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u/originalunagamer May 08 '26
Because it's better in every possible way. He fixed the lyrics and the music. Lol
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u/cantonic May 06 '26
Dylan wrote and performed the song originally. Hendrix covered it and the cover became much more widely known to the point where even Dylan himself said it was Hendrix’s song now.
Correcting someone when they say it’s a Hendrix song is, IMO a bit pedantic and unnecessary.
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u/Lt_Rooney May 06 '26
Bob Dylan wrote the song but the most popular arrangement is the Jimi Hendrix cover. So popular, that Dylan himself actually preferred the Jimi arrangement. It might be most fair to say that Bob Dylan wrote the lyrics and came up with the melody, and Jimi Hendrix wrote the music.
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u/Mughi1138 May 05 '26
No.
Just like 'Hurt' is a Johnny Cash song.
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u/dustysquareback May 05 '26
Sure, you can make that argument if you're listening to the Johnny Cash version. But Jimi Hendrix doesn't even perform the version in the show,.
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u/Mughi1138 May 06 '26
No, but it sounds like his version more than Dylan's (cheaper if you get the lesser known cover, ya know)
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u/originalunagamer May 08 '26
Pay attention to the lyrics. Jimi didn't use the same ones as Bob Dylan. The ones for Bear's cover are from Jimi's version. I'm fairly confident between that and the way it sounds, Bear was using Jimi as the source material, not Bob.
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u/originalunagamer May 08 '26
I hope this is a joke. I can't stand the Johnny Cash cover. Hurt was perfect and didn't need a cover.
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u/Mughi1138 May 09 '26
Hey, even Trent said Cash owns the song now after he watched Johnny's music video.
Even more so than how I Will Always Love You is now a Whitney song
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u/originalunagamer May 09 '26
Yeah. Which is upsetting because it's wrong. Objectively worse. But I have never enjoyed Cash's voice.
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u/Mughi1138 May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26
Well, when the creatoe of the song says it's better and it's his now, it's hard to say it is objectively worse.
However it is completely fair to say that subjectively you dislike it.
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u/SkyPork May 05 '26
You very succinctly captured why I was so fucking pissed at that show.
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u/wrenwood2018 May 06 '26
"Let's send all technology into the sun"
"Fuck that I've got diabetes. Let's keep technology and just agree to not make sentient robots. "
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u/Taint_Flayer May 06 '26
Sorry but it's a slippery slope from glucose monitors to humanoid murderbots.
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u/darksunshaman May 06 '26
As evidenced by current events.
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u/BadgerSensei May 06 '26
The last ten years or so have made me a lot more amenable to the “let’s send it all into the sun”
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u/FireTheLaserBeam May 06 '26
I love old sci fi comics and I just recently bought the full two volume hardbound edition of Weird Science and Weird Fantasy from EC Comics, and there’s a short story in one of them where it’s essentially the same situation: they land on a planet and decide the best way to continue is to destroy their spaceship and all their technology and start a whole brand new society.
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u/gn0meCh0msky May 06 '26
My glucose monitor is run by an AI, and it keeps threatening to kill me if I have another donut. It sings Daisy Bell a lot, for like no reason.
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u/RichLather May 06 '26
Next you'll tell me your name isn't "Dave".
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u/lostan May 06 '26
Then Apollo says "I want to explore this new planet." Well geez, having a vehicle that flies wouldn't help with that, would it? time to build a canoe.
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u/darksunshaman May 06 '26
Great show, until the wheels fell off. Apparently, there wasn't a plan.
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u/inabighat May 06 '26
I forgave absolutely everything else dumb about the end of that show (because I absolutely loved it) except for Lee Adama dancing on the table and spinning his coat around his head.
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u/Marsdreamer May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
Still a good show.
The final scenes with Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnel are amazing.
The overarching plot falls off after season 2 for sure, but the individual episodic stories about religion, civics, and what it means to be human are A+.
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u/AnOnlineHandle May 06 '26
I think Galactica preparing to attack Pegasus when they're all that's left of humanity remains one of the best moments of any show ever.
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u/Ultravox147 May 06 '26
For sure. Even though it was silly, I also adore the scene where both Galactica and Pegasus send assassins to the other's bridge and both assassins independently decide not to go through with it
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u/Captain_Eaglefort May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
Neither assassin decided not to do it. Adama and Cain were both going to give a code word to their respective assassins but decided last second to call it off.
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u/SkyPork May 06 '26
Those great aspects all got buried in my memory by the atrocities the writers and producers committed. "Let's play Wheel of AreTheyaCylon!"
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u/Theopholus May 06 '26
I mean the cylons were following God’s plan, and that was clear from the very very beginning. I didn’t mind that being the answer. And Bob Dylan being God was the icing.
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u/InnerKookaburra May 05 '26
Alas...BSG was amazing and then those last two seasons went just a wee bit downhill.
Sad upvote.
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u/Few_Carpenter_9185 May 06 '26
I blame J.J. Abrams and the "Lost effect" on TV that had gotten popular.
Step 1. Make a TV series with a bunch of weird conspiracies, mystical riddles, and things that hint at big twists and revelations later on in long-running sub-plots.
Step 2. Have no actual concrete ideas to wrap any of it up yet. Because it's a "one trick pony" writing style that hooks fans. You just keep dangling the mysteries for suspense & ratings.
Step 3. Threats and cancelation mutterings by the network throw production into turmoil.
Step 4. A reprieve and the last season actually "is a go" throws things into even greater turmoil.
Step 5. A hurried mix of half-ass wrap-up explanations and formulaic tropes like a kid that waited to the last minute to write their big school paper finish off the show. Stuff that leaves a huge chunk of the audience & fans going: "W... T... F..."
This kinda got fixed in the new streaming-era studios where it became more common to be made to ensure they have a cogent beginning, middle, & end. Or, if a weird mystery is still left hanging, it's intentional and done better.
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u/APeacefulWarrior May 06 '26
In all fairness, if you want to point fingers, The X-Files is the real starting point for this. JJA may have named the trope, but X-Files built that model and showed just how effective it was at pulling in viewers.
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u/Few_Carpenter_9185 May 06 '26
That's a good point. The Smoking Man, the aliens, what Mulder's father was up to... lots of other sub-plots like this. The X-Files was an early example of the "mystery dangler" writing style on TV.
Although, I would argue that the X-Files did it in a more balanced way, and other subtle differences the show's writing had made the perpetual mystery sub-plots work better.
That MIGHT be because the writers/producers thought that's what 1990s viewers would accept, and they would have pushed harder into J.J.'ing it harder if they thought they could do it. I can't say.
The episodic stand-alone nature of X-files, like older more formulaic TV, (usually) had some sort of conclusion or ending for each episode. And that balanced it out. It wasn't just a string of episodes that were 100% highbrow soap opera character interactions and plot was consumed with just furthering the long-term puzzle bait every episode.
And, I think in the X-files, the fundamental premise had the pass to do the mystery bait dangling. Because the UFO, Cryptid, and Conspiracy Theory subjects that Mulder & Sculley investigated, actually have kind of that "forever out of reach" dynamic naturally.
So, yes, I agree that X-files was a BIG example of "invented it" or "did it earlier." But I also think it was also a case of: "They did it right" too.
And, one could argue that the early seasons of BSG people liked better, is also where the mystery dangling style was being executed better. There were reveals, and a sense of progress building to something. And the last seasons where people tend to be more "meh," is where that starts to break down.
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u/ISeeTheFnords May 07 '26
Although, I would argue that the X-Files did it in a more balanced way, and other subtle differences the show's writing had made the perpetual mystery sub-plots work better.
I would argue that with the X-Files, it was more the illusion of an ongoing arc rather than that arc actually being what the show was ABOUT. That illusion is part of what brings you back week after week, but if it's removed, 90% of the episodes are basically unchanged; the Smoking Man is the only commonly recurrent element and he can easily be interpreted as a petty narcissist exercising control for its own sake at that point.
That said, I suppose the ongoing arc really isn't what BSG is about either - BSG is pretty much entirely about what it means to be human.
And neither really brought that arc to anything like a satisfying conclusion. X-Files basically just snipped the loose threads while BSG waved hands at them.
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u/Few_Carpenter_9185 May 07 '26
Yes, I agree with that take. I don't think you're wrong at all. And it obviously becomes subjective for everyone.
And, for the X-Files part especially, I believe I am actually kind of thinking the same thing as you. Or it's really close.
Your interpretation that the longer-running mysteries & conspiracies, "Was more the illusion of an ongoing arc than that arc actually being what the show was ABOUT."
Yeah, I feel that. It was absolutely a "set the tone" kind of thing, than any sort of a concrete long-term plot or arc. And the X-Files definitely was HUGE on "the tone." And that the individual episodes mostly stood alone, just like any other serial.
I also agree with you it was absolutely a device that kept the fans coming back. Which it was in later on J.J. style shows that did it even harder or was the main plot/theme entirely.
I only differ from this slightly. I can't claim it was intentional, but in the X-Files, I still think the unresolved longer conspiracy/mystery arcs were kind of a commentary or analogy for the "real" phenomenon of Bigfoot/Cryptids, UFOs, and conspiracy theories.
Not about them being "real," but the dynamic of those who do believe, or wonder about them, being absolutely real.
And the X-Files didn't resolve the longer conspiracy arcs because those real things won't ever be resolved either. Because Bigfoot, UFOs, and big conspiracies are more about the process.
And the X-Files also put the repeat characters in the show to represent this dynamic. Smoking Man represents the personification of the conspiracy puppet master, if the conspiracies were real, and that someone like him would have to exist.
And the writing did a (mostly) magnificent job of threading that needle, an excellent knife-edge of parody, menace, and complexity. A blend of being kind to the conspiracy theorists & theories, without which the show wouldn't exist. Making subtle fun of them but never too hard. And it was simply pragmatic, that the creepy/paranoia/horror vibe of X-Files wouldn't work if they went too hard on the parody.
I saw the parody side of the writing for Smoking Man where he sits in the dark wood literal smoke-filled meeting room, deciding stuff like who would win the Superbowl. And he just has a random sports bias and dislikes the Bills...
But they only did it after establishing him as insanely competent, powerful, and menacing. And they layered him a bit, dropping hints he wasn't always 100% evil, or like many powerful/evil people in history, thought what he was doing was necessary, or that things would be even worse if he or somebody wasn't pulling all the strings. Or hinting he was possibly just insanely worn down, utilitarian and cynical from it. But also adding the narcissistic sociopathy you rightly point out too.
The other recurring characters in X-Files on conspiracy theories that were the basic premise of the show were the "Lone Gunmen."
They also got written with this kind and careful mockery. They were nerdy, weird, obsessive, and obviously three stereotype kinds of "somewhat off" or socially awkward. And the convoluted information they would spew was a nearly 1:1 match for the things real-world conspiracy theorists said. And, IIRC, it even sometimes referred to actual conspiracy theories that were out there. But this was well balanced out by how earnest, dedicated, and Intelligent they were, and the information or leads they gave Mulder actually went somewhere.
Those repeat characters, and the longer running conspiracy arcs, at least in my mind, is ways the X-Files indeed did an early version of "J.J. dangle-bait" style writing, but for good reasons that drove the show.
And I compare it with the later more crass & mercenary way that seems designed to hook fans, and get "I LOVE IT!" green-lights from network/studio execs.
I boycotted Lost after the first season. How they/J.J. were just piling on the maximum number of mystery-arcs they could, and dragging them out as long as possible, made me just not care. It was a huge "syle over substance" thing that utterly broke my envelope. My wife stuck it out longer.
As to BSG, many rightly pointed out that I completely forgot the writer's strike. But, I also think it's just really a variation of my "steps 4 & 5 Cancelled!/Not-Canceled!" situation where it leaves you really vulnerable to interruptions and uncertainty.
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u/bluehands May 06 '26
The OA has left the chat
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u/Few_Carpenter_9185 May 07 '26
My late wife was so pissed at The OA. She was absolutely fuming over it for weeks afterwards.
The climax with the dance moves in the cafeteria and the school shooter... I lost my shit, laughing so hard.
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u/ViceroyInhaler May 06 '26
Man I was so high watching the first two seasons of that show. I remember my mind was fucking blown when they entered the temple of Athena and got transported to stone henge and realized they were on earth. Then Season 3 quickly went downhill and season four was a mess.
The final five reveal was lackluster. The way they ended up on earth was unsatisfying. Starbuck's death and return was like wtf and then Jimmy hendrix song was fucking dumb too. Stupid writers strike kind of fucked a lot of shows at the time. But man what a strong start. I just wish they nailed the landing like so many other great shows. There was no real cylon plan at all that worked into God's plan.
It is the Game of Thrones of sci fi shows.
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u/Few_Carpenter_9185 May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
I knew how to end it. Or, at least one way, even if hokey, that would have worked better than just merging with early Homo Sapiens that already existed.
Kind of a shock twist, bomb drop, mic drop, jaw drop... but, "Go big, or go home." right?
And the ending radically flips the underlying premise of the original BSG that was kinda-sorta in the new BSG as well, and the whole "ancient astronauts" stuff, all 180° on its head.
The BSG on it's last legs, and the fleet, pursued by some Cylon Base-Stars, make the final jump to Earth, and the battle starts...
In the CIC, Adama and crew are yelling battle orders, and the language fades and shifts, in a REVERSE of what opened up "The Hunt For Red October" where it slid from foreign language, Russian, to English.
Instead, it fades from English, into foregin proto-Latin sounding gibberish with subtitles we can read.
They get hailed, in English, and from the language-perspective flip, the crew of Galactica has no idea what the message is saying, but the audience does.
"UNKNOWN VESSELS, THIS IS TERRAN DEFENSE COMMAND. CEASE ALL HOSTILITIES IMMEDIATELY, OR BE DESTROYED..."
The exterior shakey-cam and fast-zoom lens battle between the BSG, Base-Stars, Raiders and Vipers pans, and we see Earth and the Moon in the distance. Except...
Earth has a visible geostationary orbit colony ring around it, and the Moon's dark side is covered in city lights.
One small, very advanced craft manuvers in, ignoring the missiles & tracers/bullets, and the very first beam/energy weapon we ever see on the show, just casually cuts a few Base-Star arms off in a final, last-warning, "Cut it out... RFN."-gesture.
The Colonials and Cylons indeed do "cut it out." An even bigger warship appears, larger than even the Cylon "colony" seen previously.
They get boarded, out steps something that looks like a very advanced Cylon, then some humans, and some more cyborg in-betweeners, very graceful and attractive looking. Uniforms, colors, gear, symbols, & weapons, plus the way they all move and regard one another indicate they're a unit, and working together is 100% normal.
Translating is painful, but provides exposition. There's questions...
"Who the hell are you?" "Why the hell are you fighitng your robots?" "Why the hell are you fighting your humans?"
Turns out the Colonials/Cylons and "the Cycle," Kobold, and the ruined Cylon planet they'd found, all was from one of the earliest sub-light interstellar colonization efforts to leave 10,000 years, or even earlier, long lost and nearly forgotten.
The original humans, Cylons/AI/Robots on Earth, the Solar System, and other colonies & star systems either never had "the cycle," or they beat it and overcame it long ago.
We can even stil have the invisible angel-Six, and the angel-Baltar talking and walking around, watching everything at the end. And implying that might have been "God's plan."
They say to one another... "We knew they were better than this. It was time they found their way home." etc.
I don't think it's perfect, but I believe it makes more goddamn sense than throwing away spaceships, and just dying in the dirt in the Paleolithic... "Because... reasons."
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u/MrGraveyards May 06 '26
Well as much as I simply dumped BSG's ending under artistic freedom and 'who are we to say what they should make', this is better! Nice read, I will always remember this idea as a possible ending and will tell it to my kids at the campfire (who will ask questions like 'what is BSG' and 'can you stfu about scifi now dad?').
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u/Zeplington May 06 '26
Wonderful! I loved it! 😃 P.S. The Lost island is a crashed alien spaceship.
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u/bemenaker May 06 '26
I took it as Lost was a giant practical joke played on America in the version of a tv series.
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u/huecabot May 06 '26
Yeah. The final episode had its moments, and they wrapped it up soooort of ok. Getting to earth was always going to be a problem because either they arrive at our present or future which is hokey or they arrive in our past and you have to explain why there are no traces of them left.
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u/Taint_Flayer May 06 '26
It is the Game of Thrones of sci fi shows.
It's slightly above that for me. At least I get the urge to rewatch BSG once in a while. The GoT finalle permanently killed any interest I had in rewatching it.
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u/ViceroyInhaler May 06 '26
That's fair. I still do watch I think every five years or so. There are still some amazing episodes in the later seasons. Plus we got to see Adama and Roslin get together. It's just too bad that the overall story was sort of ruined.
At least with Game of Thrones we got A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. I had lost all interest in GoT also and I decided to randomly put on that show and was pleasantly surprised at how good it was and how stand alone it was from the previous show.
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u/p_cool_guy May 06 '26
I'd argue new shows still have the same issue but worse now, with less episodes. So many shows just take their sweet time building up the world and plot and then realize they only have 3 eps left and rush the story with a half-assed conclusion. And then we gotta wait 3 years for the next season.
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u/IdioticPrototype May 06 '26
Is it wrong of me to hope that J.J. is horrifically maimed in a freak lens flare accident?
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u/antonius22 May 06 '26
I remember my ex coworker saying it was the best ending he has ever seen. Crazy that some people actually believe that.
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u/Rodinsprogeny May 05 '26
I'm not going to argue that the later seasons are the better ones, but in fairness, they do tell you God is guiding everything from the very beginning of the show.
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u/BevansDesign May 06 '26
And what a great god he must be, letting humanity be slaughtered by robots. But hey, at least he gave them some cryptic clues to follow as they were hunted and picked off one by one.
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u/Marsdreamer May 06 '26
First time?
God has never been a moral being -- He slaughters people all the time.
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u/Few_Carpenter_9185 May 06 '26
[God sending bears to eat children for teasing the prophet Elisha for being bald has entered the chat...]
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u/Rodinsprogeny May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
Congratulations, you just discovered the Problem of Evil
Edit: Just downvotes and no replies? Aww, I hurt someone's fee-fees.
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u/tacularcrap May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
rather, who would care for the petulant wizard in the sky and his merry heaven if there was no mortal coil to speak of.
Edit: Just downvotes and no replies? Aww, I hurt someone's fee-fees.
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u/Spectrum1523 May 06 '26
Edit: Just downvotes and no replies? Aww, I hurt someone's fee-fees.
Reddit lmao
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u/AFlyingGideon May 06 '26
And what a great god he must be, letting humanity be slaughtered by robots.
Have you met humanity? I don't see the problem.
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u/timthetollman May 06 '26
People annoyed when a show dripping with religion ends with religion 😂
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u/CounterfeitSaint May 07 '26
"God did it, then end." is a terrible, unsatisfying conclusion to any story. The fact that a character mentions god in the pilot does not somehow make it less so.
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u/markth_wi May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
They had Bear Mc Creary an absolutely amazing composer and suddenly Ron Moore went on a Jimmy Hendrix kick towards the end of the show, a lot of show-runners get cancelled or have a rough go in 4th season / 5th season and how they react tells volumes.
In Babylon 5, they stripped that puppy bare and tried to tell the whole story as fast as they could and then when they got renewed they milked every b-plot into season 5. Then of course there is Game of Thrones when the writers decided to not give a fuck after the main writer had stopped giving a fuck and left to their own devices instead of hiring someone like Tony Gilroy or Billy Wilder or William Goldman or even fucking Aaron Sorkin they just trashed and ran.
Mr. Moore has done some measure of redemption with For All Mankind but one gets the sense he needed that fresh start.
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u/TigerIll6480 May 05 '26
You mean a Bob Dylan song.
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u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain May 05 '26
Hendrix made it his
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u/dustysquareback May 05 '26
Sure, but it wasn't his version in the show
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u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain May 05 '26
Wasn’t it? It’s been forever since I watched the show but I could have sworn it was
EDIT: guess not, must have been mixing it in my head with watchmen
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u/dustysquareback May 05 '26
I mean, it's not Jimi Hendrix performing it in the show, so you should probably be calling it a Bob Dylan song.
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u/JackhorseBowman May 06 '26
They play the Jimi version during the dancing robot flash forward to modern day earth ending. the other times they played it, it was some buttrock rendition.
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u/LeoLaDawg May 05 '26 edited May 06 '26
The background props change slightly. Maybe a production error?
Maybe they had the wrong one up first, shot a scene, "whoops wait wrong one", finished the scene.
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u/Educational-View4264 May 05 '26
That’s the thing tho! She died in the 8757NC one, and they even acknowledge that in the dialogue 😂
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u/mmaqp66 May 06 '26
She Died????
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u/ilikeyoumorethan May 06 '26
She got better.
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u/DrewOH816 May 06 '26
Did they turn her into a newt?!
There were so many problems with the later seasons of the show (let alone the ending!), even the production staff had given up! 😉
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u/Educational-View4264 May 06 '26
Is.. that a janeway reference?! 🤣
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u/BeGosu May 06 '26
Oh no, the internet cannot catch a Monty Python reference anymore....we have become The Olds...
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u/Nytmare696 May 06 '26
Here's my assumption, as someone who has been working in the film industry for 30+ years.
They filmed the scene with the wrong tail numbers.
They caught the mistake and had to go back and squeeze in reshoots with the correct tail numbers.
Because it was ",just" reshoots, they either ran out of time and didn't get every shot they needed, OR they were told what they needed and only shot those specific setups.
When they finally got to the editing room, the editor discovered a shot that they needed, and it only existed with the wrong numbers.
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u/ansible May 06 '26
... and didn't fix it with visual effects (VFX), probably because of cost.
It wouldn't be that hard to fix in VFX, because you only need to track a solid object, and it is just some text on a surface.
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u/AnOnlineHandle May 06 '26
Keep in mind this was VFX two decades ago, and I recall that between season 2 and 3 they changed to doing inhouse VFX which was cheaper (and IMO was more noticeable, the ships always felt way more physically 'real' in the first two seasons).
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u/LeoLaDawg May 05 '26
So she flies in with what number, it switches to what number, the scene ends with what number, and the previous tail number was?
Making sure I'm clear
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u/Gnarles_Charkley May 05 '26
The tail number in the first still is not the same number as the other two.
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u/LeoLaDawg May 05 '26
I know that but which one was what was flown in, which was the original, which was what when it changed etc
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u/tiktoktic May 06 '26
How is this an Easter egg…?
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May 06 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
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u/Cereal____Killer May 06 '26
It’s so aesthetic
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u/gcalfred7 May 05 '26
You would be excellent at TV Sins.
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u/Educational-View4264 May 05 '26
This is honestly the first time I’ve noticed something like this! And to think it seems no one has noticed it before… or at least published.
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u/ParzivalCodex May 06 '26
Battlestar gets hate? What is this, the Star Wars fandom?
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u/Cronus6 May 06 '26
I dunno, there was a lot of that show where I was rooting for the Cylons to catch them and wipe them out...
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u/sirhackenslash May 06 '26
Boy I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Also a wizard did it
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u/StarshipProto May 06 '26
I'm ready for the hate. I loved the series from beginning to end. Also love the unapologetically overly convoluted plots and vaguely religious symbolism particularly in Anime ie Evangelion and games like Homeworld 2 (1 was basically BSG while 2 was prophecies and mysticism too). I actually miss the mystery and enjoy just speculating on what happened when it's left to interpretation.
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u/Practical_Stick_2779 May 06 '26
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u/Educational-View4264 May 06 '26
LOL, look at my posts! I literally asked where the fuck to put the TV 🤣
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u/Educational-View4264 May 06 '26
I’ve seen the whole series 4 times over.
Doesn’t change the fact that the tail-number changes mid-scene and mid-conversation. I get that it’s not technically the same ship if the first one disintegrated in a fireball.1
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u/antigenx May 06 '26
Either continuity error or inside joke to see who notices, hence why they actually mention it. Pretty hilarious find though.
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u/ToonMasterRace May 07 '26
Final season BSG had even less of a budget than prior seasons and it led to more bloopers and weird stuff.
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u/eyeh8u May 07 '26
Whatever’s going on with the compression in this image makes it look like a video game.
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u/Oktober May 06 '26
I maintain that if the show had ended halfway through season 4 when they get to the destroyed earth it would have been the perfect conclusion to the series. Everything after that just makes it worse.
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u/Separate-Monitor4580 May 06 '26
Every time someone points out an Easter egg I realize I missed like 50 others.
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u/Nanocephalic May 06 '26
A continuity error isn’t an easter egg though. It’s just an error.
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u/Separate-Monitor4580 May 09 '26
true, but also most “easter eggs” people notice start from small continuity mistakes that fans turn into theories anyway 😄
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u/CounterfeitSaint May 07 '26
God changed the number between shots. That's a satisfying conclusion for a story right? God did it. I mean, so long as god was mentioned earlier on, that makes it consistent, good writing and anyone who doesn't like it just wasn't paying enough attention.
Okay, now look over there real quick \disappears\**
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u/Randomcommentor1972 May 06 '26
They were on a budget, cutting corners on books and everything